Axle-skein.



Patented Apr. 29, I902.

on N E l W S 0 F H AXLE 25 of the wheel.

UNITED STATES IIARRYfFOWLER, OF CRANDALL, INDIANA.

AXLE-SKEIN.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 698,925, dated April. 29, 1902.

Application filed August 24, 1901- Serial No. 73,118. (No model.)

from axles, so that an axle, although it may be partly worn away, may nevertheless be repaired so as to operate effectively.

This specification is a specific description of one form of the invention, while the claims are definitions of the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a sectional view of an axle or wheel-hub having myinvention applied. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the skein, and Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 f Fig. 1.

a indicates the axle-spindle, and b the hub At the point a in the drawings it is indicated that the axle is worn away by the action of the wheel-hub against it. This worn portion is, filled and the axle or spindle thereby made uniformly round by the 0 skein c, which is widest (approximately semicircular) at its inner or left-hand end and tapers to a point at its outer or right-hand end. on the axle and to conform to the shape thereof, for which purpose the skein has an enlarged inner portion 0, as shown. From the enlarged portion 0' of the skein a flange 61 projects outward. This flange has extensions cl at each end, which are bent upward, so as 0 to lie around the axle adjacent to the shoulenlargement a of the axle, and from this hood projects rearwardly a shank e, fastened to the usual clip f of the vehicle. will be seen that this skein may be readily at- The skein is formed so as to fit snugly Now it tached to the axle and when once in place will form practically a permanent part thereof. It may be made in varying thicknesses,

so as to accommodate the particular axle to which it is to be applied, and when once in position will restore the axle to its proper form. part e of the skein, through which orifice the oil gathering in the enlargement 6 may escape.

Various changes in the form, proportions, and minor details of my invention may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention. Hence I consider myself entitled to all such variations as may lie within the scope of my claims.

, Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and'desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. An axle-skein,comprisingatapering body portion of arc-shaped. cross-sectional form, and means at the Wide end of the skein removably to hold it against the under side of the axle-spindle.

2. An axle-skein, comprising a body portion or skein proper, an enlarged hood at the inner end thereof, a shank projecting inward longitudinally from the hoodQforthe purpose specified, and side extensions bentupward e indicates an orifice in the enlarged and inward from the front of thehood to form v HARRY FOWLER.

Witnesses:

EMERY H. BREEDEN, F. M. BARTLEY. 

